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    World Literature

    I. Works and Authors:


    The Voter By Chinua Achebe
    Once a upon a time by Gabriel Okara
    Life in our Village By Matel Markwel
    Literature of China:Analects by Confucious
    The People of Tao ChouBy Po Chu I
    The Spider’s Tread by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
    About Work by Kahlil Gibran
    Prognosis by Morris West
    The Odyssey by Homer
    Pygmalion by Ovid
    My Boyhood in India By Krishnalal Sridharani

    II. Country’s nickname:


    Philippines : Pearl of the Orient
    Japan : Land of the Rising Sun
    Australia : Land Down Under
    India : Second Most Thickly Populated Country
    USA : Greatest Champion of the Free World
    China : Land of the Rising Dragon
    Korea : Land of the Morning Calm
    Tibet : Roof of the World

    III. Vocabulary:
    De – virtue Sanskrit – oldest language in India
    Ren – human heartedness
    Li – form of moral life
    Zhong (loyalty) , shu (altruism)
    Xiao – Five relationship
    Brahman – priest/scholars
    Ksatriyas – warriors/ rulers
    Shudras – sevants
    Dalits – or the outcaste
    Vedas – sacred knowledge
    Odyssey – advetures

    IV. Characters
    Polyphemus – one eyed monster; son of Poseidon
    Aeolous – keeper of the wind; he gave Odysseus a bag that contains all the people winds
    Laestrygons – giant cannibals who ate most of Odysseus’ men
    Circe – an enchantress who turned the men of Odysseus into pig
    Hermes – messeger ni Zeus; helped Odysseus in his journey
    Tiresias – prophey in the underworld.
    Sirens – sea women that lures man to death by singing
    Scylla – six headed monster
    Charybdis – whirlwind

    V. Gods and Goddesses

    List of Greek Roman Counterparts Description / Roles of the Olympians


    Olympians of Olympians
    Zeus Jupiter or Jove King of the Olympian gods
    Hera Juno Queen of the Olympian gods
    Demeter Ceres Goddess of agriculture
    Athena Minerva Goddess of wisdom
    Artemis Diana Goddess of hunting
    Apollo Apollo, the Roman god God of the sun and music
    Ares Mars God of war
    Hephaestus Vulcan God of fire and metal-working
    Hermes Mercury Messenger of the Olympian gods
    Aphrodite Venus Goddess of love and beauty
    Hestia Vesta Goddess of the home and hearth
    Hades Pluto God of the Underworld
    Poseidon Neptune God of the Sea

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